Description
An orange scented, olive oil, “bread-like” cake dotted with walnuts and raisins, typically made on St. Fanourios Day who is the patron saint of lost things. This cake will help “reveal” something to you.
Ingredients
- ¾ cups Olive Oil
- 1 cup Sugar
- ¾ cups Orange Juice, Freshly Squeezed
- 1 teaspoon Cinammon
- 1 teaspoon Ground Clove
- 1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
- 3-¾ cups All-purpose Flour
- ½ cups Walnuts, Roughly Chopped
- ½ cups Raisins, Roughly Chopped
Preparation
Preheat oven to 350ºF.
Place olive oil and sugar in a mixer and beat for about 5 minutes to dissolve the sugar. Add orange juice, cinnamon, clove and baking powder. Add the flour (in 3 additions) and mix. At the end, add walnuts and raisins and mix one more time.
Place batter in a 9-inch round or square pan and bake for 45 minutes. Or you can use a bundt cake pan if you like special patterns on your cake like me. (Also, I like busting the big fat Greek wedding myth that somehow Greek people don’t know what a bundt cake is. So I use this cake shape. All. The.Time.)
Let the cake cool and remove from the pan. Share with friends or family and have them say a little prayer to St. Fanourios’ mom to help you find your lost things. Watch for things to be revealed in the days to come. Woo-woo.
Enjoy.
